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(...) This is a good point. They are quite expensive. I know that shop sized displays sell for a little less, and, although glued, are far more unique. One would have to know the numbers sold to know if the are a money spinner, but I expect it must (...) (26 years ago, 24-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.loc.uk)
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(...) Agreed. Let's see what the latest announcement plays out as... I suspect (even ignoring the non availability of graygreen/verdigris) that the current bulk packs cannot make you any of the statues (the legodude uses plates not in the bulk (...) (26 years ago, 24-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.loc.uk)
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(...) Does a third of these indicate success of the first two ? Maybe they think Eric.H and Henry.L are typical AFOLs. More research would indicate that most of us use lots of specialised elements in our MOCS. (...) Basic bricks would be cheaper for (...) (26 years ago, 24-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.loc.uk)
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As Kevin L also noted, AFAIK, the bricks molded in the US were only destined for the Americas. (...) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (26 years ago, 24-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) LEGO gets their ABS for Europe from Bayer. The U.S. Supply comes from GE. In other words, they can get the ABS from wherever they want to put a factory but it might take time to get the vendor up to speed. (URL) (many pages about LEGO and (...) (26 years ago, 25-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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If you need the amendments sheets for a particular model, I'm told by LCSA, at least, that all one has to do is to call or write with details of the amendment sheets that are required. Shouldn't really be necessary for them to post it on their site, (...) (26 years ago, 29-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic)
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That's fine, but how am I supposed to know there is an amendment sheet in the first place? Duq "Geoffrey Hyde" <ghyde@ledanet.com.au> wrote in message news:G6Ct47.KxC@lugnet.com... (...) LCSA, (...) them (...) (26 years ago, 30-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic)
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One way is to just call and ask. :-) I found out about a correction sheet and parts that were made for the barcode truck model I have. It does help, though, if it looks obvious that a correction sheet should be available. -- Cheers ... Geoffrey Hyde (...) (26 years ago, 30-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic)
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Are brown brick packs going to be available from Lego Direct anytime soon (even if it is just 1x2's & 2x4's)? (26 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Surely this is not legal
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(URL) tell me this isn't legal. Rose (26 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) It probably isn't illegal. It's just not very smart, especially for the person(s) buying the item. Considering that most of the instruction are available from www.brickshelf.com and, (I'm only speculating here and am not in possession of any (...) (26 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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It would probably be illegal if it became obvious that the person "auctioning" that particular item was going to make a lot of money doing that. But at $1.30 ea. it doesn't look likely. Of course, TLG could say that this isn't a fair interpretation (...) (26 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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Richard Schamus <legoman34@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:G6G36G.1uB@lugnet.com... (...) It doesn't look legal to me - the reason being the prominent LEGO logo displayed with their 'Just Imagine...' trademark on the top, acting like it was (...) (26 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Do you think he/she could have 'mined' the Brickshelf Site? (If they did then I'd check your server VERY carefully..) With the CD on ebay TLG could theroetically close down all sites hosting thier (C) material :-( Lets hope the AFOLS's get him (...) (26 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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OK, I've tried to be patient on this but I've had enough. Whenever I go to Shop @ Home and follow a link to a new page, I have to wait for a good solid 30 seconds while my browser displays a message that says "Please wait, menus being loaded." It (...) (26 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Yes, because of those awful menus, I don't use the website. A real shame. I don't have this problem on some other sites that use menus. I bet it's partly the browser. (26 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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Yeah, I have to wait too, though my dsl is usually running about 127k :( (if I'm lucky...) I've just learned to tolerate it, not that I think it's good web practice, though we know that nothing good will ever come out of the Official Page... at (...) (26 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) While I find the site at times somewhat annoying, I don't see THOSE sorts of delays. what browser are you running? Some Mac thing? I am running IE 5.50 on Win 2000 over dialup, mostly. BTW (the menus are Javascript, but we know that (...) (26 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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Guess what? Those S@H menus don't work in IE 4 either. (Time to upgrade?) It turns out, IE 4 can't even be used on Microsoft's website anymore because too many links are implemented as javascript actions instead of, um, links. For instance, it's (...) (26 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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